ashram

Etymology

From Sanskrit आश्रम (āśrama).

noun

1. (Hinduism) A secluded religious hermitage inhabited by gurus, or the population of such a hermitage.
   The entire ashram was excited.
   In our broken culture those who have experienced the training of the yogic ashram are often woefully ignorant in the ways of the university, and vice versa. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 219